Introduction: An Institutional History of Sociology in the Czech Republic -- 1: Sociology in Service to Nation-Building: The Legacy of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk -- 2: A False Beginning? The Growth and Destruction of Czech Sociology 1918-1950 -- 3: 1950-1969: Becoming a Counsellor to the Socialist Prince -- 4: 1969-1989: The Long Hour of Party Ideologists -- 5: The 1990s: Reconstruction and the T…
On Norbert Elias: Becoming a Human Scientist – Prologue -- A long Life Has its Advantages – or: The Late Career of a Book -- On the Plan of this Academic Work -- In Front of the Mirror -- Childhood, Youth, Maturation -- Old Heidelberg, You Delicate -- The First Appearance at the Zurich ‘Soziologentag’ -- The End in Frankfurt -- The Great Book -- Hoping and Waiting.The book focuses on th…
1. Introduction -- 2. Bourdieu’s intellectual biography -- 3. Classical and Modern Theories of the State -- 4. Bourdieu’s theory of the state -- 5. The Field of Power -- 6. State formation -- 7. An Assessment of Bourdieu’s theory of the State -- 8. Conclusion. .This book critically examines Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the state by assessing its theoretical and empirical value. Steven Lo…
Preface: Evaluation and governing in two quotes or When the arithmetician met the curator -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Understanding Evaluation in the UK -- Chapter 3: Disciplinary Measures -- Chapter 4: Transformative Possibilities.This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative …
1: Introduction -- 2: Ibn Khaldun -- 3: Karl Marx -- 4: Harriet Martineau -- 5: Max Weber -- 6: Jose Rizal -- 7: Emile Durkheim -- 8: Said Nursi -- 9: Pandita Ramabai Saraswati -- 10: Florence Nightingale -- 11: Benoy Kumar Sarkar -- 12: Epilogue.-.This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique. Including…
1: Myths and Histories of Italian Sociology -- 2: The Post-War Period: ‘Inventing’ Sociology in Italy -- 3: The Hubs of Newborn Sociology -- 4: The Dream of Institutionalization -- 5: A Fascinating and Precarious Project: Sociology in Trento -- 6: After ’68: A New Generation of Sociologists -- 7: Entrenchment and the Emergence of New Structures -- 8: Routinization and Globalization: the 1…
1. De-theorizing in order to Re-theorize Emergent Alignments. A Rumination -- 2. A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi -- 3. The Critique of Transitologist Discourse, or what is to be done with “post”? -- 4. A Fractured Globe: Anthropology and Narration after 1989 -- 5. Postcolonial Criticism after 1989 -- 6. Cash and Livelihood in Soft Currency Economies: challeng…
1. Introduction -- 2. Online Dating - A Meeting Point for the Modern Individual and Traditional Individualism -- 3. The Market Character of Online Dating -- 4. Classical Theories of Mate Choice and the Relational Deficit in the Study of Relationship Formation -- 5. A Bourdieusian Approach to Mating Processes -- 6. Methodological Implications -- 7. Empirical Analyses -- 8. Online Dating – A Un…
Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Religious Indifferences in Relation to Religion and Nonreligion (Johannes Quack) -- Chapter 2. Genealogies of Indifference? New theoretical thoughts on the history and creation of narratives surrounding Christianity, Secularism and Indifference (David Nash) -- Chapter 3. A Discursive Approach to ‘Religious Indifference’: Critical Reflections from Edinburgh’s Sou…
This volume brings together a range of contributions exploring the diverse ways in which children and young people experience movements, im/mobilities and journeys at different geographical scales and in different socio-spatial contexts. It provides a snapshot of recent work within the geographies of children and young people which has engaged with emerging conceptualisations of mobility and im…